Summary of Content: Signed by Hunter on a a piece of paper pasted to the title page. Delivered in the senate of the United States, 24 June 1856. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, Washington, D.C. Hunter was a senator from Virginia.

Background: Sumner was beaten on the Senate floor by South Carolina representative Preston Brooks after his ”Crime Against Kansas,” speech in which he argued Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a free state.